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SpokFrevo Orquestra

Ninho de Vespa

By SpokFrevo Orquestra

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Onze de Abril; Comichão; Spokiando; Capibarizando; Pisando em Brasa; Quatro Cantos; Ninho de Vespa; O Que Nelson Gostou; Ta Achando Que Tá Devagar?; De Baixo do Frevo; Pipocando; Cara de Carranca; Moreas é Frevo.

SpokFrevo Orquestra: Ninho de Vespa

by Angelo Leonardi
May 26, 2015

Elettrizzante. Il Frevo è un genere musicale e una danza nata alla fine dell'800 a Pernambuco nel Nordeste del Brasile e associata a quel carnevale. È caratterizzato da un ritmo frenetico, quasi parossistico, e nella metà del secolo scorso s'è imposto al carnevale di Rio, diventando il ritmo tradizionale dell'intera Nazione. Un po' com'è successo al ...

SpokFrevo Orquestra: Ninho de Vespa

by Jack Bowers
February 10, 2015

To begin, a couple of small but important details: first, saxophonist Spok (given name: Inaldo Cavalcante de Albuquerque) is the leader of this remarkable seventeen-piece “orquestra." Second, Frevo isn't Spok's co-leader but a form of Brazilian swing / dance music whose wellspring is the area in and around Recife, Pernambuco. Is it jazz? Most definitely, as ...

Spok Frevo Orquestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center

by Nick Catalano
October 30, 2014

Frevo--a feverish, exuberant dance music from the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil--made its Big Apple debut last night (October 25th, 2014) at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Theater. Virtually unknown in the U.S., it was originated by a composer known as Zuzinha as a street martial arts/ dance music and organized around carnival in cities ...

Spokfrevo Orquestra, London, UK, July 2, 2013

by Sammy Stein
July 10, 2013

Spokfrevo OrquestraRonnie Scott's Jazz ClubLondon, UKJuly 2, 2013Frevo is a hectic mix of Latin jazz with elaborate arrangements and intricacies. It evolved from several historical musical influences including military marching bands and polka. The composers of old are referred to as “maestros," to by the musicians. Refice, capital of the state ...